permit: [15] Permit is one of a large family of English words (including also admit, commit, etc) which go back to Latin mittere ‘let go, send’. Combination with the prefix per- ‘through’ produced permittere ‘let go, give up’, hence ‘allow’. Amongst derivatives to have reached English are permissible [15], permission [15], and permissive [17]. => admit, commit, mission, permission, submit, transmit
permit (v.)
late 15c., from Middle French permetre and directly from Latin permittere "let pass, let go, let loose; give up, hand over; let, allow, grant, permit," from per- "through" (see per) + mittere "let go, send" (see mission). Related: Permitted; permitting.
permit (n.)
"written statement of permission or license," 1714, from permit (v.).
雙語例句
1. He can let the court's decision stand and permit the execution.
他有權維持法庭判決，批準死刑生效。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Will they permit you to sit in on a few classes?